Robert Nozick's The Experience Machine

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In the article “ The Experience Machine”, Robert Nozick questioned whether or not experiences are the only things that are intrinsically good or bad. His central question is what matters most to us as individuals, simulated or real experiences? He attempt to answer these questions by staging a hypothetical scenario where people could programed their desired life experiences and live their entire life under the plug of the experience machine. The experience machine is analogous to being trapped in a tank for a lifetime living in a world where your desired experiences are consistently stimulated in your brain. Additionally, he questioned rhetorically whether people would want to live in such an environment.First, Nozick speculated that despite

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